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Redoing pond
I've hired someone to come in and fix my pond (I'm tired of the sides collapsing
all the time) and to add 2 new bogs. Naturally I'm going to have to remove all of my fish. I have 2 full size koi, 5 baby koi and about 20 gold fish of varying sizes. My plan was to fill a 100 gallon stock tank with pond water to keep them in during the construction (it's the biggest thing I have). I plan on putting a net over the tank and will revive a 5 gallon pail filter I created. The plants will go in various buckets, except for floaters which will go in the stock tank. The landscaper estimates about 2 days to do the work. I would expect in total that the fish would be in the tank for about a week before they can go back in. Any precautions about keeping the fish in the tank during that time? Any advice on returning them back to the pond? Thanks in advance. |
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That's a lot of fish in 100 gallons of water. By full size koi do you mean
18"? Go to walmart and get some rubbermaid containers. They are cheap, will do the trick, and you'll have storage boxes after it's all done. If not I'd be concerned that ammonia or nitirites will kill everything off in the 100 gallon tank since you're starting fresh. "Neil Law" wrote in message ... I've hired someone to come in and fix my pond (I'm tired of the sides collapsing all the time) and to add 2 new bogs. Naturally I'm going to have to remove all of my fish. I have 2 full size koi, 5 baby koi and about 20 gold fish of varying sizes. My plan was to fill a 100 gallon stock tank with pond water to keep them in during the construction (it's the biggest thing I have). I plan on putting a net over the tank and will revive a 5 gallon pail filter I created. The plants will go in various buckets, except for floaters which will go in the stock tank. The landscaper estimates about 2 days to do the work. I would expect in total that the fish would be in the tank for about a week before they can go back in. Any precautions about keeping the fish in the tank during that time? Any advice on returning them back to the pond? Thanks in advance. |
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On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 14:07:48 -0400, "Sam Hopkins"
wrote: That's a lot of fish in 100 gallons of water. By full size koi do you mean 18"? Go to walmart and get some rubbermaid containers. They are cheap, will do the trick, and you'll have storage boxes after it's all done. If not I'd be concerned that ammonia or nitirites will kill everything off in the 100 gallon tank since you're starting fresh. The Koi are about 12 inches at this point. I was hoping that between the filter and daily water changes I could keep things up. I do have a couple of other rubbermaid containers I could use (plants were going to go into them) but I figured it would be easier for all if they were kept to one container. |
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Neil
I moved 30 fish including 15" koi from Houston to Ohio (a 3 day trip) in large styrofoam koolers and they all did just fine. I have 3 air stones in each cooler and did a water change about every 8 hours so I would think your fish would be fine in 100 gallons if you keep up with them. Karen In article , Neil Law writes: The landscaper estimates about 2 days to do the work. I would expect in total that the fish would be in the tank for about a week before they can go back in. Any precautions about keeping the fish in the tank during that time? Zone 5 Ashland, OH http://hometown.aol.com/kmam1/MyPond/MyPond.html My Art Studio at http://members.aol.com/kmmstudios/K....M.Studios.html for email remove the extra extention |
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